Video shows 2 Chicago cops didn't see train that fatally struck them as they kept eye on another train
by Liam Ford, Jeremy Gorner and Mary Wisniewski, Chicago Tribune
Dec 18, 2018
3 minutes
CHICAGO - The two Chicago officers scrambled up the embankment and walked south on the Metra tracks, keeping an eye on an approaching train as they searched for a shooting suspect.
The noise apparently masked another train coming up fast behind them.
There's no indication the officers saw the South Shore train before it struck and killed them on a viaduct over 103rd Street on Monday evening, according to video taken by a body camera on one of the officers.
"They had
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